RFBrownwards
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RF Brown. Writer of literary fiction reifying semiotics, philosophy, and postmodern theory. “Big words, small print, no sales.” ✔️homo🏳️🌈
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I don’t find Hari Kunzru’s novel Blue Ruin a particularly innovative story, but it is an astute, philosophic examination of the tension between art as pure expression and art as capitalist endeavor. Have you read this, do you know if there are thematic links to Kunzru’s “red” and “white” novels? 🖋️📚💙
May 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I don’t find Hari Kunzru’s novel Blue Ruin a particularly innovative story, but it is an astute, philosophic examination of the tension between art as pure expression and art as capitalist endeavor. Have you read this, do you know if there are thematic links to Kunzru’s “red” and “white” novels? 🖋️📚💙
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, is the definitional modernist novel: plotless, subjectivity fragmented, allusive, alienating. It’s also an emotion-bending literary triumph. 🖋️📚💙
May 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, is the definitional modernist novel: plotless, subjectivity fragmented, allusive, alienating. It’s also an emotion-bending literary triumph. 🖋️📚💙
Murderbot Diaries 1: All Systems Red. Martha Wells. Tense, darkly hilarious, and both scary and hopeful about AI future. Convincingly detailed hard science re sentient artificial intelligence, astronautics, and space colonization. Do people recommend the rest of Murderbot series? #booksky💙📚
April 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Murderbot Diaries 1: All Systems Red. Martha Wells. Tense, darkly hilarious, and both scary and hopeful about AI future. Convincingly detailed hard science re sentient artificial intelligence, astronautics, and space colonization. Do people recommend the rest of Murderbot series? #booksky💙📚
East of Eden: I marvel at Steinbeck’s commitment to scope, place both beautiful and bleak, and characters illustrating philosophy on the ontology of morality. Characters also a bit unnatural. Except Lee, the Chinese servant? Are there prior Western novels that gave us nuanced Asian characters?🖋️📚💙
April 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
East of Eden: I marvel at Steinbeck’s commitment to scope, place both beautiful and bleak, and characters illustrating philosophy on the ontology of morality. Characters also a bit unnatural. Except Lee, the Chinese servant? Are there prior Western novels that gave us nuanced Asian characters?🖋️📚💙
Lie With Me, Philippe Besson’s memoir-novella doesn’t explore new ideas in sad gay fiction (especially for those of us who’ve enjoyed our gay hearts rendered by the two-good-for-this-earth trope since The Frontrunner). But, the book is beautiful, and wistful, and sincere.
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April 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Lie With Me, Philippe Besson’s memoir-novella doesn’t explore new ideas in sad gay fiction (especially for those of us who’ve enjoyed our gay hearts rendered by the two-good-for-this-earth trope since The Frontrunner). But, the book is beautiful, and wistful, and sincere.
🖋️📚💙 🌈📚
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The Favorites, Layne Fargo, is a twisting, twizzling novel about the savage sport of competitive Ice Dance. Parts sexy angsty romance, mystery, and faux-docudrama. I don’t recommend it to kids, but it’s a propulsive book for readers who take their figure skating seriously and cold. #sportsfiction💙📚
April 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The Favorites, Layne Fargo, is a twisting, twizzling novel about the savage sport of competitive Ice Dance. Parts sexy angsty romance, mystery, and faux-docudrama. I don’t recommend it to kids, but it’s a propulsive book for readers who take their figure skating seriously and cold. #sportsfiction💙📚
Gracias, whoev on #philSKY directed me to Shannon Vallor’s crucial take: Look beyond robot overlord prophesies, AI isn’t the other it’s the documentation of human error in a mirror. Humanity’s challenge is to reframe AI as an ethical tool, enhancing rather than eroding human agency and creativity.
March 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Gracias, whoev on #philSKY directed me to Shannon Vallor’s crucial take: Look beyond robot overlord prophesies, AI isn’t the other it’s the documentation of human error in a mirror. Humanity’s challenge is to reframe AI as an ethical tool, enhancing rather than eroding human agency and creativity.
March 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Vinge’s novel Rainbows End doesn’t predict AI puts humanity at risk of a superintelligence coup, but that we’re dooming ourselves to staring into a technological prism, to no longer recognizing ourselves as human. Rainbows isn’t as successful with characters as imagining its gonzo-tech future.🖋️📚💙
March 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Vinge’s novel Rainbows End doesn’t predict AI puts humanity at risk of a superintelligence coup, but that we’re dooming ourselves to staring into a technological prism, to no longer recognizing ourselves as human. Rainbows isn’t as successful with characters as imagining its gonzo-tech future.🖋️📚💙
I read Shiver, the first in Maggie Stiefvater’s teen werewolf YA novels. No sex, but oozing with sex in every phrase. Clutch your pearls! Has anyone read the follow ups in this series? #booksky 💙📚
March 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I read Shiver, the first in Maggie Stiefvater’s teen werewolf YA novels. No sex, but oozing with sex in every phrase. Clutch your pearls! Has anyone read the follow ups in this series? #booksky 💙📚
I read Simon Brett “Murder in the Museum.” Kind of meh on the characters, but I’d try a different Brett mystery series if you’re recommending. #booksky 📚💙
March 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I read Simon Brett “Murder in the Museum.” Kind of meh on the characters, but I’d try a different Brett mystery series if you’re recommending. #booksky 📚💙
Tried to get deflowered on Brave New World via audiobook. Can’t follow, lots of characters and little plot. Have to go to analog version and start over. Are there novels you couldn’t finish listening and got into reading pages o.g. ? #booksky🖋️📚💙
March 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Tried to get deflowered on Brave New World via audiobook. Can’t follow, lots of characters and little plot. Have to go to analog version and start over. Are there novels you couldn’t finish listening and got into reading pages o.g. ? #booksky🖋️📚💙
This person on EBay selling 32 of 33 volumes. What happened to the 33rd? The “Volume of the Lost Volume?” 👻🛸 There are no answers! 👹🧌
March 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This person on EBay selling 32 of 33 volumes. What happened to the 33rd? The “Volume of the Lost Volume?” 👻🛸 There are no answers! 👹🧌
North Woods occupys special-novel space where what it means feels obvious and indefinite. I'll say it's about ghosts in the American narrative, haunting us generationally in expressions of property, ambition, nurture, lust, avarice, fallacies, and optimism. Also, trees and wild animals🐆. #booksky🖋️📚💙
March 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
North Woods occupys special-novel space where what it means feels obvious and indefinite. I'll say it's about ghosts in the American narrative, haunting us generationally in expressions of property, ambition, nurture, lust, avarice, fallacies, and optimism. Also, trees and wild animals🐆. #booksky🖋️📚💙
Geoge Eliot's Daniel Deronda bit of mess by today's standards of consistent tone btwn drollness and Zionism. Still, her writing this epic beautifully with compelling characters in longhand is impossible to imagine via Word™️. First time Eliot—I 💙. Which novel do you insist I read next?🖋️📚💙 #booksky
February 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Geoge Eliot's Daniel Deronda bit of mess by today's standards of consistent tone btwn drollness and Zionism. Still, her writing this epic beautifully with compelling characters in longhand is impossible to imagine via Word™️. First time Eliot—I 💙. Which novel do you insist I read next?🖋️📚💙 #booksky
Susan Sontag's first novel, The Benefactor, lists an alt title, Confessions of a Self-Addicted Man. His dreams become his real life and his real life becomes a shocking, surreal, and darkly comic dream. Sontag's opus 1 on subjectivity and the human ambition to resolve desire and lack. #booksky🖋️📚💙
February 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Susan Sontag's first novel, The Benefactor, lists an alt title, Confessions of a Self-Addicted Man. His dreams become his real life and his real life becomes a shocking, surreal, and darkly comic dream. Sontag's opus 1 on subjectivity and the human ambition to resolve desire and lack. #booksky🖋️📚💙
I’m not well studied on bisexual literary fiction. Andre Aciman’s Enigma Variations, had sections of longueurs, but it’s use of bi-ness as a metaphor for life’s what ifs? pays off. What are some other bi novels?
February 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I’m not well studied on bisexual literary fiction. Andre Aciman’s Enigma Variations, had sections of longueurs, but it’s use of bi-ness as a metaphor for life’s what ifs? pays off. What are some other bi novels?
G.K. Chesterton only made it to 62. But rock stars should die before they get old.
February 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
G.K. Chesterton only made it to 62. But rock stars should die before they get old.